The entrapments of form cruelty and modern literature / Catherine Toal.
| Author/creator | Toal, Catherine |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Fordham University Press, 2016. |
| Description | 172 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
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| Contents | Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word" -- Chapter 1: The Forms of the Perverse -- Chapter 2: "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" -- Chapter 3: Murder and "Point of View" -- Chapter 4: The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5: American Cruelty. |
| Abstract | "This book describes the narrative form of cruelty in modern literature. It focuses on the two main literary traditions that carry the legacy of revolutionary upheaval in modernity, the French and the American, and shows the transfers of influence that create the contemporary outline of the concept"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-168) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015026934 |
| ISBN | 9780823269341 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780823269358 (paper) |